HJORRING, an ancient town of Denmark, capital of the _amt_ (county) of
its name, in the northern insular part of the peninsula of Jutland. Pop.
(1901) 7901. It lies 7 m. inland from the shore of Jammer Bay, a stretch
of coast notoriously dangerous to shipping. On the coast is Lonstrup, a
favoured seaside resort. In this neighbourhood as well as to the
south-east of Hjorring, slight elevations are seen, deserving the name
of hills in this low-lying district. Hjorring is on the northern railway
of Jutland, which here turns eastward to the Cattegat part of
Frederikshavn (23 m.), a harbour of refuge.
HKAMTI LONG (called Kantigyi by the Burmese, and Bor Hkampti by the
peoples on the Assam side), a collection of seven Shan states
subordinate to Burma, but at present beyond the administrative border.
Estimated area, 900 sq. m.; estimated pop. 11,000. It lies between 27
deg. and 28 deg. N. and 97 deg. and 98 deg. E., and is bordered by the
Mishmi country on the N., by the Patkai range on the W., by the Hukawng
valley on the S. and E., and indeed all round by various Chingpaw or
Kachin communities. The country is little known. It was visited by T. T.
Cooper, the Chinese traveller and political agent at Bhamo, where he was
murdered; by General Woodthorpe and Colonel Macgregor in 1884, by Mr
Errol Grey in the following year, and by Prince Henry of Orleans in
1895. All of these, however, limited their explorations to the valley of
the Mali-hka, the western branch of the Irrawaddy river. Hkamti has
shrunk very much from its old size. It was no doubt the northernmost
province of the Shan kingdom, founded at Mogaung by Sam Long-hpa, the
brother of the ruler of Kambawsa, when that empire had reached its
greatest extension. The irruption of Kachins or Chingpaw from the north
has now completely hemmed the state in. Prince Henry of Orleans
described it as "a splendid territory, fertile in soil and abundant in
water, where tropical and temperate culture flourish side by side, and
the inhabitants are protected on three fronts by mountains." According
to him the Kiutze, the people of the hills between the Irrawaddy and the
Salween, call it the kingdom of Moam.
HLOTHHERE, king of Kent, succeeded his brother Ecgberht in 673, and
appears for a time to have reigned jointly with his nephew Eadric, son
of Ecgberht, as a code of laws still extant was issued under both names.
Neither is mentioned in the account of the invasion of Aethelred in 676.
In 685 Eadric, who seems to have quarrelled with Hlothhere, went into
exile and led the South Saxons against him. Hlothhere was defeated and
died of his wounds.
See Bede, _Hist. eccl._ (Plummer), iv. 5, 17, 26, v. 24; _Saxon
Chronicle_ (Earle and Plummer), s.a. 685; Schmid, _Gesetze_, pp. 10
sqq.; Thorpe, _Ancient Laws_, i. 26 sqq.
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